# Doctor Who Revival S8E3 -- Robots of Sherwood (boxed spoilers until it airs on the West Coast) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 6, 2014, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-revival-s8e3-robots-of-sherwood-boxed-spoilers-until-it-airs-on-the-west-coast/697639 "2014-09-06T06:13:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2014, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-revival-s8e3-robots-of-sherwood-boxed-spoilers-until-it-airs-on-the-west-coast/697639/101 "2014-09-15T02:25:09Z")
So is anyone going to post what the original ending was or what. ---
**Author:** ![Toucanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3bc359/32.png) [@Toucanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toucanna)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2014, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-revival-s8e3-robots-of-sherwood-boxed-spoilers-until-it-airs-on-the-west-coast/697639/102 "2014-09-15T04:00:39Z")
[QUOTE=Penfeather] {snip} I liked the episode, although Robin was a little too much like Lord Flashheart. {snip} [/QUOTE] Lord Flashheart was a send-up of impossibly heroic manly-man swashbuckling-type characters. The conceit in this episode was that every (modern) British literary swashbuckler was derived from/based on exaggerated tales of a real Robin Hood’s exploits and prowess. [QUOTE=DigitalC] So is anyone going to post what the original ending was or what. [/QUOTE] IIRC, the ending that aired is the original ending. The only thing that changed was that about 2 minutes was edited out of the Robin’s and the Sheriff’s final fight in which Robin decapitated the Sheriff, thus revealing him to be a robot. FWIW, someone upthread linked to an excerpt taken from the black and white preair screener that leaked (well, okay, was stolen off the BBC-Latin America server[s]) in July/August. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2014, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-revival-s8e3-robots-of-sherwood-boxed-spoilers-until-it-airs-on-the-west-coast/697639/103 "2014-09-15T04:04:16Z")
> [@Toucanna](#): > > IIRC, the ending that aired is the original ending. The only thing that changed was that about 2 minutes was edited out of the Robin’s and the Sheriff’s final fight in which Robin decapitated the Sheriff, thus revealing him to be a robot. FWIW, someone upthread linked to an excerpt taken from the black and white preair screener that leaked (well, okay, was stolen off the BBC-Latin America server[s]) in July/August. That was me–post #22. ---
**Author:** ![Toucanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3bc359/32.png) [@Toucanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toucanna)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2014, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-revival-s8e3-robots-of-sherwood-boxed-spoilers-until-it-airs-on-the-west-coast/697639/104 "2014-09-15T04:14:40Z")
[QUOTE=Infovore] That was me–post #22. [/QUOTE] You stole the preair screeners off the BBC Latin America servers?!?!? :eek: 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Penfeather](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penfeather/32/384_2.png) [@Penfeather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penfeather)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2014, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-revival-s8e3-robots-of-sherwood-boxed-spoilers-until-it-airs-on-the-west-coast/697639/105 "2014-09-15T05:52:01Z")
> [@Toucanna](#): > > Lord Flashheart was a send-up of impossibly heroic manly-man swashbuckling-type characters. The conceit in this episode was that every (modern) British literary swashbuckler was derived from/based on exaggerated tales of a real Robin Hood’s exploits and prowess. WOOF WOOF! The episode was pretty heavily influenced by the Third Doctor story _The Time Warrior_, which is still rather splendid: the Doctor travels back to 12th Century England to find that a Sontaran warrior has been kidnapping 20th Century scientists to repair his stranded spaceship, whilst passing the time by arming and equipping a local robber baron with robot knights. Notable for being the first Sontaran story, the first Sarah Jane story, and Boba Fett as Hal the Archer, it’s well worth your time. ---
**Author:** ![Toucanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3bc359/32.png) [@Toucanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toucanna)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2014, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-revival-s8e3-robots-of-sherwood-boxed-spoilers-until-it-airs-on-the-west-coast/697639/106 "2014-09-29T01:00:52Z")
Can’t let my credentials as an obsessed Whovian lapse. So, even though it’s been three weeks, this is still bothering me and I’m going to address it: The name of this episode is _ **Robot** of Sherwood_. “Robot” in the singular, not plural. It matters because first, it’s a pun on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin\_Of\_Sherwood"]“Robin of Sherwood” and second, along with the Doctor’s grumpy insistence that Robin Hood was not a real person, that pun is meant to deceive the viewer into thinking that “the” robot of Sherwood is Robin, when it’s really the Sheriff. Bonus round: Phil Davis, who played “Prince John” in _Robin of Sherwood_, played “Lucius the Soothsayer” in _The Fires of Pompeii_ (S04E02). Who else was in TFoP? Karen “Amy Pond” Gillan and Peter “Twelve” Capaldi. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-revival-s8e3-robots-of-sherwood-boxed-spoilers-until-it-airs-on-the-west-coast/697639.md?page=5)